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Murder trial
jury hears
of ‘revenge’

Roommate revisits fatal morning

By Andre Ramshaw

Contributing Writer

JUST minutes before a North Vancouver man
allegedly clubbed his 10-year-old daughter to
death with an axe he calmly exchanged words with
his roommate, a court heard this week.

Pierre Jacques, who advertised
in the North Shore News for
someone to share his two-bed-
room suite at 130 West Sth
Street, said he saw Michel Andre
Caouette shortly before he left tor
work at 7:45 a.m. on July 13,
1995.
Caouette was charged with
uttering a death threat against his
wife in carly May that year. He
had been temporarily banned
from seeing his children, but they
were allowed to stay with him on
the night of July 12.
Caouette, 43, has pleaded not
guilty to the first-degree murder
of his 10-year-old daughter,
Danielle, and the attempted mur-
der of his 14-year-old son,
Joshua. The prosecution con-
tends the father attacked his chil: MICHEL Andre Caouette is
dren in the Lower Lonsdale aparr- charged with the premeditated
ment at about 8 a.m. that day ~- murder of his young daughter.
Danielie’s birthday.
Jacques, responding Tuesday to questions from Crown lawyer Joe Bellows,
said he was in a rush that morning and asked Caouette if he could use the
bathroom.
Caouette, wearing only his white underwear, replied “no problem” and
did not appear out of sorts. Jacques explained that Caouette broke down in
tears a week or two after moving in an May f of that year and told a story af : : ;
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in the park and that she was nothing but a siut.”
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